Automotive Valérie Pécresse: the ‘bulldozer’ who would be France’s first female president | France Christin Hakim, June 8, 2023March 19, 2023 When Valérie Pécresse crossed rural France this summer, visiting farms and villages to escape what she called her grotesquely unfair image as a “blond bourgeoise” from Versailles, she promised to smash the French Republic’s glass ceiling. “I will be the first female president of France,” she told meeting halls to… Continue Reading
Automotive Max Smart wins FIA Rally Star African Final, Kristie Ellis is top female competitor Christin Hakim, May 30, 2022 Max Smart wins FIA Rally Star African Final, Kristie Ellis is top female competitor He joins Estonia’s Romet Jürgenson, who triumphed in the FIA Rally Star European Final in January, and Oman’s Abdullah Al Tawqi, the winner of the FIA Rally Star MENA Final in March, as an FIA Rally… Continue Reading
Automotive Stanford Smart Woman Securities empowers female students in finance, investing Christin Hakim, April 20, 2022 In recent years, women have grown more likely to make financial investments outside of emergency funds, according to a study by Fidelity. The same study, however, found that only one third of women feel comfortable making investment decisions. Stanford Smart Woman Securities (SWS) is a pre-professional organization on campus working… Continue Reading
Automotive Opinion | HBO’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ and the Rise of the Female TV Antihero Christin Hakim, February 20, 2022 When we meet Sam, the 40-something protagonist of the HBO dramedy “Somebody Somewhere,” she has returned to her hometown, Manhattan, Kan., to care for her dying sister — and finds herself stuck there, single, unhappy, struggling with aging parents and a dead-end job. While her other sister runs a tchotchkes… Continue Reading
Automotive Italy’s parties look to female presidential candidate after rightist flop Christin Hakim, February 8, 2022 A member of parliament casts a vote to elect Italy’s new president, at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Italy, January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/Pool Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Five days of repeated ballots produce deadlock Party leaders suggest woman might now be elected Spy… Continue Reading
Automotive New book celebrates the lost work of Shakespeare’s female editors | Books Christin Hakim, December 13, 2021 Reviewing Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke’s illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s plays in 1869, an anonymous critic blamed “the numberless alterations, mutilations, corruptions, or whatever we may choose to call them” on Mary, and wished that “the lady editor had refrained from thus tampering with our great poet’s language”. More than… Continue Reading
Automotive Fighting for equity: How Maine female entrepreneurs are beating the odds to raise capital Christin Hakim, December 3, 2021 As Atlantic Sea Farms CEO Briana Warner raises more than $4.5 million in venture capital to finance a new 27,000-square-foot kelp-processing facility in Biddeford, she recalls early pitches to unwelcoming investors. “It was fairly deflating in every way,” Warner says three years after taking the helm of the country’s first… Continue Reading
medical ‘The Mad Women’s Ball’ and 5 more recommendations to investigate ‘female hysteria’ Christin Hakim, September 18, 2021 Written by Marianna Cerini, CNN Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. It’s a tale as old as time: A woman won’t conform to societal norms, traditional notions of… Continue Reading